Super Mario Maker Player Has Spent Over 1,500 Hours Trying to Beat His Own Stage

Super Mario Maker allows you to create your very own Super Mario stages, and you can make them as fun, silly, straightforward, or difficult as you like. There's just one catch: You have to beat your own creation before you're allowed to upload it for other players to download and play. This keeps people from intentionally designing unbeatable levels and wasting players' time. One player has created a stage that is beatable, but he believes it's the hardest stage ever created. In fact, he's spent over 1,500 hours trying to master the beast he's created -- and he's failed. You can see the stage trailer he created above.

There are more nuances, tricks, traps, and intricacies in this stage than we even care to imagine navigating. You'll notice at several points that carefully timed, precise jumps are necessary to make it from one section of the stage to the next. Sometimes you have to remain ducking while jumping; sometimes you'll need to execute a series of spin jumps. Other times you'll be required to escort a Yoshi or P block through several hazards in order to gain entry to the next section.

"A lot of people wonder how I have the patience for this," creator Bradon Moor said in an interview with Waypoint, "and one of the most helpful things is that I never go into a session thinking 'Today is going to be the day' or 'I'll have this done by this point in time.' It all comes down to the final section," he said. "I only ever have to complete the ending once."

We don't envy this man his task. Especially because we know he's destined for heartbreak. You know what's going to happen, don't you? This is the internet. The moment this guy beats his level, after over a year of trying, thousands of hours of frustration, potentially over a million attempts... The moment it's released into the wild, someone in the world is going to beat it within an hour and he's going to be devastated.

Judging by the trailer above, this guy is Super Mario freak of nature; a master. There are other masters, though, and no doubt there are people out there who dedicate their lives to beating seemingly impossible stages as they come and go. This will become just another notch in someone's belt.